Lydia had planned to spend the rest of her life with her fiance; now she's coming to terms with his recent and tragic loss.

Things don't all work out too easily in Hendrix's Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires, but courage is satisfyingly rewarded.

In The Vanishing Half, Bennett explores the complicated implications of perception as reality when it comes to race.

There are not many surprises here, but Center offers great escapism into a close-knit Galveston, TX, community.

Mitchell expertly builds the band members into rich characters you're rooting for. More very welcome David Mitchell universe madness.

Six Riveting Time-Travel Escapes

It's an excellent setup for a romantic comedy of a book with enough heartache that your teeth don't hurt from the sweetness.

In A Woman Is No Man, Rum explores the often powerless and voiceless status of her conservative Palestinian female characters.

Oluo offers specific steps we can take toward "talk[ing] our way to understanding...and using that understanding to act."

Six of the books I bought during the 2020 pandemic and can't wait to read.

Authors El-Mohtar and Gladstone present rival elite agents, Red and Blue, who exist on opposite sides of an immense futuristic war.

Hidden Valley Road by Robert Kolker is a fascinating, disturbing, heartbreaking, and ultimately hopeful book.

Zelda has to figure out what it means to live her own legend. (I loved this book.)

"A stirring call to conscience and consciousness in white brothers and sisters."

A compelling Gothic suspense story that keeps you guessing.

Kidd offers a creepy, dark mystery gloriously steeped in details of Victorian London and seedy, sordid characters, and heroes with heart.

Lu layers a fantastical alternate fairy world over a framework of the imagined point of view of Wolfgang Mozart’s real sister.

This story imagines a wife for Jesus, questions gender roles, and offers adventure.

A smart master thief who bends time and finds her loyalties dividded in turn-of-the-century New York.

Luna has a unique and lovely voice and is an irresistibly odd bird of a twelve-year-old girl.